2025/26 David Moyes

[NathDogg]

I think that`s where he`ll eventually end up, either that or the Scotland job.

Won’t be anytime soon for either, but think we are his last prem job whatever happens.

I’m not sure he’s learned anything at all from his time at wham etc.

Adapt or die davey.

 

[Swartzy]

Did United, Betis or Sunderland fans enjoy his stewardship?

I think the minority West Ham fans did based on the fact that he was the lesser of many previous evils at a Club run even worse than us.

Most Blues were relatively content for his first 6-7 seasons and then grew increasingly bored and frustrated with his approach to both games and scrutiny. Why would anyone expect that approach to change 12 years later?

two keepers on the bench is really, really pee'ing me off. It totally demotivates any youngsters shining in the U21's and sends a big signal to any potential signings who aren't his typical experienced Premier League targets.

Wasn't it Sociedad !

 

[NathDogg]

He’s really starting to get on my wick.

Playing lads with knocks now, instead of resting them and utilising the squad!

No wonder we looked goosed from minute one kick off, it wasn’t just the 10-man effort at OT, he’s picking players with injuries. Farce.

 

[Nymzee]

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He’s really starting to get on my wick.

Playing lads with knocks now, instead of resting them and utilising the squad!

No wonder we looked goosed from minute one kick off, it wasn’t just the 10-man effort at OT, he’s picking players with injuries. Farce.

How do you know the players that had the knocks could have been swapped out? What if it was a centre half?

 

[Bedfordblue]

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He’s really starting to get on my wick.

Playing lads with knocks now, instead of resting them and utilising the squad!

No wonder we looked goosed from minute one kick off, it wasn’t just the 10-man effort at OT, he’s picking players with injuries. Farce.

Presumably he’s dug out that pearler after the media team have told him his post match comments didn’t go down too well….

 

[Neiler]

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He’s really starting to get on my wick.

Playing lads with knocks now, instead of resting them and utilising the squad!

No wonder we looked goosed from minute one kick off, it wasn’t just the 10-man effort at OT, he’s picking players with injuries. Farce.

He knows what he's at there, cc Angus Kinnear.

 

[Saint Domingo]

One of them was saying it in the midst of the biggest financial crisis in this club's history. The other is saying it having spent over €120m in the summer, signed Jack Grealish, and moved into one of the best stadiums in the country.

Are Newcastle currently better than us? Yes. Was that the main reason they smashed us on Saturday? No. We got smashed because our manager couldn't rouse his players to a second brilliant performance in a week. Or any kind of performance. That can happen. Moyes should have come out there and put his hands up. Instead, he played the poor mouth (which is even harder to take when he refuses to play his €40m signing and can't seem to coach his €27m striker into netting a single goal). "Everton aren't at Newcastle's level. They would have needed to have an off-night and we would have had to have had a good night to beat them." Laughable deflection. They must be having an awful lot of off-nights, so, given they started three points below us.

What'll be his excuse if we lose tomorrow?

Nah, Moyes's words merely reinforce what many of us know and had hoped might be erased on Monday night. He'll always big himself up and talk this club down.

World has changed with the new owners for sure but even Jose Mourinho was talking about football heritage and little horses and that was when he was in charge of United and Chelsea winning trophies. It’s just what managers do.

If we gave managers better players results would improve. They’d improve more by that than us just asking them to change their mentality. If we had a manager failing to manage a top quality squad I could accept criticism a lot more but we give them an absolute pile of rubbish and then start battering them for saying games might be difficult in press conferences or that other teams are better than us.

It wouldn’t wash if we’d given Moyes or Dyche a top 6 squad but they can easily just turn around and point to no fit right backs, no quality striker, no depth at holding mid, one left back, no pace in the backline or midfield, and the squad is very injury prone. Dyche especially could point to being bottom of the league for net spend over 5 years.

If we ranked the squads in quality from 1 to 20 at the start of the season and took the manager out the equation then Everton’s would probably be in the bottom half behind the sky six, Newcastle, Villa, Palace, Forest, Brighton. Might be an argument over the bottom positions but you can see my point.

Moyes may well turn around at the end of the season with a top half finish and say what more can be expected given the squad he received.

It’s the same problem Everton have had for 30 years that we give the manager squads of a certain level and then expect significant continuous over performance. As soon as it doesn’t happen fans get annoyed.

It needs to start with sinking much more money into this squad and buying much better players with pace, technique, power, intelligence, leadership and resilience. It doesn’t start by moaning at the manager to ‘go for it more’ or being more positive in press conferences. It would be nice but doesn’t move the dial.

 

[Swartzy]

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He’s really starting to get on my wick.

Playing lads with knocks now, instead of resting them and utilising the squad!

No wonder we looked goosed from minute one kick off, it wasn’t just the 10-man effort at OT, he’s picking players with injuries. Farce.

He's playing to the owners, he wants cash.

If he keeps speaking like this the only cash he will get is a pay off.

 

[MACCA75]

Tbh if we’d given ourselves a functioning squad, then now would be the time that it would pay dividends. Lots of teams playing European fixtures, looking tired, getting injuries..lots of games close together.

Instead it’s us with 2 keepers and 2 kids on the bench, no right back, a duff striker, square pegs in round holes.. and we only have an average amount of players out.

 

[leslad]

was looking for the last time we won at Bournemouth away. FA cup 5th round in 15/16. Martinez finished 11th and got to the semi final of the cup that season, and then was sacked.

It's mad to think if Moyes achieved the same results this season he would probably consider himself to have overachieved. He isn't doing an outrageously bad job, but undoubtedly, him being our manager right now and making the comments that he did post Newcastle really is an unfortunate a marker of how far the club has fallen in the past ten years.

 

[NathDogg]

How do you know the players that had the knocks could have been swapped out? What if it was a centre half?

Job goes there and another option goes to right back.

Don’t make excuses for him, he’s coming out with belters of his own.

He was a massive part of the recruitment team, he can’t keep digging out the squad and Angus Kinnear when he had the feckin veto on all signings.

 

[Nymzee]

Job goes there and another option goes to right back.

Don’t make excuses for him, he’s coming out with belters of his own.

He was a massive part of the recruitment team, he can’t keep digging out the squad and Angus Kinnear when he had the feckin veto on all signings.

Who goes to RB if JOB moves central? Garner? If Garner goes there who goes into centre mid?

 

[NathDogg]

He knows what he's at there, cc Angus Kinnear.

He's playing to the owners, he wants cash.

If he keeps speaking like this the only cash he will get is a pay off.

Mr veto can’t keep blaming everyone else for the summer window and the squad he’s got/signed.

Pipe down, put the work in and give some of the signings more than 5 mins here and there, you moaning turd.

 

[JLW]

One of them was saying it in the midst of the biggest financial crisis in this club's history. The other is saying it having spent over €120m in the summer, signed Jack Grealish, and moved into one of the best stadiums in the country.

Are Newcastle currently better than us? Yes. Was that the main reason they smashed us on Saturday? No. We got smashed because our manager couldn't rouse his players to a second brilliant performance in a week. Or any kind of performance. That can happen. Moyes should have come out there and put his hands up. Instead, he played the poor mouth (which is even harder to take when he refuses to play his €40m signing and can't seem to coach his €27m striker into netting a single goal). "Everton aren't at Newcastle's level. They would have needed to have an off-night and we would have had to have had a good night to beat them." Laughable deflection. They must be having an awful lot of off-nights, so, given they started three points below us.

What'll be his excuse if we lose tomorrow?

Nah, Moyes's words merely reinforce what many of us know and had hoped might be erased on Monday night. He'll always big himself up and talk this club down.

I actually thought Moyes would be different this time around but hearing this just tells me that he still has the same old mentality.

To say it about Newcastle makes me shudder

 

[leslad]

Hope we arent interested in anyone Newcastle are in upcoming windows...

it's really odd this, like he's talking like a pundit rather than the manager. absolving himself whilst belittling us. just say we were **** and it's your job to fix it FFS.